In the blink of an eye, March is coming, and the examination will start soon.

In the early morning of the ninth day of the new year, Gu Yunji and the others freshened up early in the morning, packed their luggage for the exam, and prepared to leave after breakfast.

From the county exam to the township exam, Gu Yunji and Cheng Yan both took the exam together and won the list together, and they are still a little unaccustomed to taking the exam separately at the moment. He was accompanied by his eldest brother Gu Yunxiao, but Cheng Yan wanted to go to the Tribute Courtyard alone, Gu Yunji couldn't rest assured, and he chattered endlessly. In the end, Cheng Yan saw that he was about to miss the hour, so he forcibly pulled him out of the door.

When he came to the meeting place that had been notified in advance outside the Donghua Gate, Gu Yunji found that there were already a lot of people gathered here, all of whom were relatives of the examiner and needed to avoid taking the exam, and it was estimated that there were about seventy or eighty, but there were many more than he imagined.

There are more than 10 examiners and fellow examiners involved in the examination, either the ceremonial officials who are in charge of academic affairs or the important ministers of the court and the central government, and most of the relatives and children who need to be avoided at home are people from the capital.

At this time, seeing Gu Yunji and Gu Yunxiao, the two face-to-face moves, everyone couldn't help but wonder and guessed their identities:

"Whose sons are those two? Why haven't you seen it? ”

"It looks like two brothers, I don't remember any family that just has two sons this year? Am I lonely? ”

"Maybe it's the examiner's cousin, from a small family, it's normal that we don't know each other."

"What can you guess here? Just go up and ask? ”

Someone had a straightforward personality and was impatient to listen to their guesses, so he simply walked up to Gu Yunji and the others and asked, "Take the liberty of disturbing me." In the next Zhang Ji, the brother of Zhang Xiang, a member of the Ministry of Rites. What do you call them? Which adult's pro is you avoiding? ”

Gu Yunji bowed slightly, and returned a salute modestly: "Under Gu Yunji, this is my brother Gu Yunxiao, and we are the cousins of Gu Yuanhui, the secretary of the Criminal Department." ”

"Gu Shangshu's cousin? So are you from the Songjiang Gu family? Zhang Ji was stunned, he didn't expect that the two young people in front of him were the children of the examiner's family of this year's examiner, and he was very surprised when he heard this.

Gu Yunxiao nodded: "Yes, we are the people of Songjiang Mansion." ”

"Gu Yunji......" Zhang Ji touched the name, inexplicably feeling a little familiar, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "You are Gu Yunji?" The Gu Yunji who had an outstanding effect on pacifying the flow and was commended by His Majesty personally? ”

"Yes, it's me." Gu Yunji raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then added, "However, appeasing the displaced people is the joint efforts of the entire Hangzhou government and people, and it is not my own work. His Majesty's commendation is not for me alone, but for all the teachers and students of Luxi Academy. ”

Among the troubles of the displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River caused by the locust plague in the north, the resettlement regulations formulated by the Hangzhou government were the most complete and effective among the state governments, and once became a model for other state governments in the south of the Yangtze River to study, and the Luxi Academy that assisted the government to pacify the displaced people was commended by the imperial court. As the name specially mentioned by the emperor in the commendation edict, the scholars in the capital were naturally heard of by Gu Yunji.

At this time, when they learned that the young man in front of them was Gu Yunji, everyone was shocked and surprised, looking at him with admiration or curiosity, and they were struggling with whether to go over to make friends, when they heard a gong sound in front of them, and the examiner began to lead the candidates in.

So everyone hurriedly took their luggage, lined up neatly in two columns, and followed the examiner to another examination room.

Stepping into the Donghua Gate, walking through the palace gates, bypassing the crimson palace walls, it took several quarters of an hour on the road before everyone successfully arrived at the Ministry of Rites hidden between several palaces.

The next process is very familiar, checking the baggage, verifying the identity, drawing the number tag...... Although it has been changed to a different place, the specific process is still the same, it is nothing more than that the official officials who inspected it have been replaced by the palace forbidden army, all of them holding swords, and they are very bluffing.

At the entrance of the queue to enter the venue, there was also a solemn face of the flying fish guard, belonging to the special agency specializing in collecting intelligence information, because of the official uniform embroidered with four claws and two horns and a fish fin and tail of the "python-like flying fish" pattern, by the emperor directly commanded, no one else has the right to transfer.

Feiyuwei martial arts are strong and elusive, and he is dressed in civilian clothes and scattered among the people to inquire about various gossip, especially focusing on monitoring court officials, and always ready to report the behavior and remarks of officials to the emperor.

Seeing Feiyuwei, all the candidates immediately became nervous, trembling for a while, eager to clamp their tails, and they didn't dare to come out. However, Flying Fish Guard has a wide range of duties, and it is not only to eavesdrop on undercover agents, at least at the moment, this Flying Fish Guard has no other actions except for standing at the door, and it seems that it is just to supervise the entry of candidates.

In order to avoid the exams of candidates, the Ministry of Rites vacated several spacious halls as temporary tribute courtyards, and after successfully entering, Gu Yunji and Gu Yunxiao were divided into two different halls. The number room in the hall is separated by wooden boards, and the space is a little more spacious than that of the Gongyuan, and it is not as open-air as the Gongyuan, so you don't have to worry about the rain splashing the rolls on rainy days.

There are thirty rooms in each hall, arranged in three rows, and Gu Yunji's room is at the end of the first row, diagonally facing the curtain of the examiner, and the location is not bad.

The candidates quickly finished entering, and it was the turn of the examiner to enter, Gu Yunji was surprised to find that the examiner who avoided the candidates was actually Fang Shu. After the Tatar border crisis was resolved this year, Emperor Jingfeng proposed several relatively desirable ministers into the cabinet, including Gu Yuanhui, and Fang Shu, who was already a scholar in the cabinet, was promoted to the first assistant during this period, and climbed to the peak of the ministers above 10,000 people under one person.

When entering, Fang Shu also saw Gu Yunji at a glance, and the two only looked at each other lightly for a moment, and then staggered their gaze one after another.

After getting the test papers, Gu Yunji found that the test questions of the evasive candidates were expected, and there was nothing beyond common sense, so he completely relaxed and answered the questions attentively.

Time passed little by little, and in the blink of an eye, on the afternoon of the third day, there were still a few hours before the first examination, and the candidates were working hard to write and seize the last bit of time to answer the questions.

At this time, the light and shadow at the door of the main hall flickered, and a man wearing a dark robe walked in.

The forbidden army on duty was shocked and wanted to speak, but when he saw the person who came, he shook his head lightly, put his finger to his lips and made a "shhh" movement, so he was instantly silent and bowed his head in fear.

There is still an hour before the handing in of the paper, Gu Yunji's answer sheet is about to end, and the more he reaches the last moment, the more he can't be in a hurry, he carefully opens the paper, and is extremely cautious every time he puts down the pen, for fear of making a mistake or omission.

As he was answering the question, the light suddenly dimmed in front of Gu Yunji, and a shadow was cast above his head, he subconsciously thought that it was an official who was inspecting the examination, so he ignored it. It's just that after half an hour, this person is still here, and he has no intention of moving.

The light has been blocked, and it is a little difficult to write, Gu Yunji frowned, exhaled a breath of irritability, and finally couldn't help but look up at the person in front of him.

The moment he saw this person's face clearly, Gu Yunji's eyes widened suddenly, and he stood up suddenly: "Your Majesty! ”